Regex to check with starts with http://, https:// or ftp://

Question

I am framing a regex to check if a word starts with http:// or https:// or ftp://, my code is as follows,

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Answer 1

You need a whole input match here.

System.out.println(test.matches("^(http|https|ftp)://.*$")); 

Edit:(Based on @davidchambers's comment)

System.out.println(test.matches("^(https?|ftp)://.*$"));